: Breakdown of China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP)

Breakdown of China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP)

The DCEP will be tasked with handling 300,000 transactions per second and, if successful, would be come the largest repository of financial data in the world.

By Bradley Cunningham

U.S. Foreign Policy
Science and Technology

August 26, 2021, 11:55 AM

Tags: Business, Finance and Banking, Great Power Politics, Monetary Policy, Science and Technology, U.S. Federal Reserve, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Treasury

U.S. Foreign Policy
Science and Technology

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